HENRY PALMER HUFF PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY FEBRUARY 1, 1999 AT VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE AT THE AGE OF 91 YEARS.
HENRY WAS BORN NOVEMBER 15, 1907 AT FLANDERS, SOUTH DAKOTA AND TRAVELED WITH HIS PARENTS TO BASSANO CHRISTMAS DAY 1913, LATER THEY MOVED TO LOMOND. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT MIDWAY, LOMOND, BRUNETTA, BASSANO AND GEM. HE BEGAN WORKING AT THE AGE OF 15 YEARS WITH HIS UNCLE THEN DROVE A COVERED WAGON THAT CARRIED CHILDREN TO SCHOOL, WHILE TRYING TO COMPLETE HIS OWN EDUCATION. HE WORKED AT MANY JOBS INCLUDING THE C.P.R, PIONEER GRAIN ELEVATOR IN HUSSAR, VARIOUS FARMS IN THE EASTERN IRRIGATION DISTRICT. HE BEGAN FARMING IN SHARES FIRST WITH BARNEY SANDUM AND LATER WITH DICK TEASDALE IN 1940. TOGETHER THEY FARMED AND HE MET AND MARRIED PHYLLIS DEGENSTEIN IN APRIL OF 1943. TOGETHER THEY MIXED FARMED IN THE LOMOND AREA UNTIL MOVING INTO TOWN IN 1950. HE ALSO DROVE SCHOOL BUS FOR THIRTY YEARS, SERVED ON THE LOMOND TOWN COUNCIL, AS MAYOR AND WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE INSTALLATION OF THE COMMUNITIES MAIN UTILITIES IN THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING PAVED STREETS, WATER PLANT UPGRADE, SUB-DIVISION, NATURAL GAS AND RESIGNED IN HIS TWENTY FIRST YEAR.
HENRY LOVED HIS FAMILY, SPORTS AND MUSIC, HE WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE LOMOND LIONS CLUB WHERE HE HAD A PERFECT ATTENDANCE.
HENRY WAS ALSO AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE SUNSHINE DROP-IN CENTRE AND BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH. CHURCH WAS HIS LIFE. HENRY WAS A PAST MEMBER OF THE ODDFELLOWS AND MASONIC LODGES, LOMOND CURLING CLUB AND PIONEER CLUB. HE PLAYED OLD TYME DANCES IN AN ORCHESTRA FROM 1939 UNTIL 1982 AND ENJOYED DANCING UP TO AND INCLUDING THIS PAST YEAR.
BELOVED HUSBAND OF PHYLLIS HUFF OF LOMOND, LOVING FATHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS SHERRY (RON) FERNLEY OF VULCAN AND LORRAINE (HENRY) WOLFF OF LETHBRIDGE, THREE SONS BRYAN (SHARON) OF LOMOND, DELMER OF ZAMA LAKE AND MICHAEL (FAY) OF COWICHAN BAY, B.C., ELEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, TWO SISTERS ALMA HAALAND OF HIGH RIVER AND NORMA HONESS OF LETHBRIDGE, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
HENRY WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS PARENTS, A SISTER HILDA TEASDALE, THREE BROTHERS LEONARD, ARTHUR AND FRED, THREE BROTHERS-IN-LAW OLE HAALAND, GILBERT HONESS AND DICK TEASDALE, A GRANDSON BYRAN HUFF AND A GRANDDAUGHTER NADINE HUFF.
FUNERAL SERVICE FRIDAY FEBRUARY 5, 1999 AT 1:30 P.M. AT BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH, LOMOND WITH REV. ED SUMMERS OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT LOMOND CEMETERY.
HONORARY BEARERS WERE MEMBERS OF THE LOMOND LIONS CLUB.
CASKET BEARERS WERE GRANDSONS DOUG FERNLEY, CHRIS ROBINSON, DUSTIN HUFF, MICHAEL STEMAN, BRUCE BELL AND BILL HALDERSON.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, TRIBUTES IN HENRY’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO THE BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH, BOX 238, LOMOND TOL 1G0 OR THE CHARITY OF YOUR CHOICE.
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